Django Newbie Mistakes
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Django Newbie Mistakes
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#2If you're writing a REST api, invest the time to learn Django Rest Framework. It is well worth it.
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#3Django’s documentation is still the best I have worked with so far of any software project I came across to date. It not only explains, it educates.
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#4I doubt it's still the case but for a long time the default "Authorization" was effectively fail-open so a newbie mistake was to use that and then not customize it leaving your API vulnerable to any logged in user reading anything.
There was a bright red box effectively saying "Don't use this module without customizing it" in the documentation but that didn't stop newbies going live with it in place.
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#5I absolutely love Django's documentation. As a desktop developer looking to get more into web stuff, Django has been super attractive as a backend to get my hands dirty with.
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#6lol. django ... what is this, 2013?
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#7Django’s documentation is excellent, but parts of the wiki are out of date.
This page has barely been updated in the last four years. It mentions MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES (deprecated in Django 1.10) and using strings in url() (deprecated in Django 1.8). There may well be other bits which are out of date.
The entries in the faq [1] are more likely to be kept up to date.
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#8Django is a hell for APIs and big projects. It's good for beginners and small projects, but once you need the least amount of actual control, you will find it's too late
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#9This is very useful for beginners.
I hope more frameworks/languages have a page of common "gotcha's" in their documentation in the future. Then again, it's sort of a right of passage to spend a couple of hours debugging common mistakes when you're learning something new: you'll definitely not repeat your mistake in the future that way :)
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#10If you're writing a REST api, invest the time to learn Django Rest Framework. It is well worth it.
Agreed, but with the caveat that there are a lot of bad parts of DRF. It's probably the best tool to build a REST API, but only if you're using some minimal subset of the tools available.